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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart


Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart portrait by Anna Piattoli


I have been thinking about the text that was preached on Sunday, the unforgiving servant. We come to the great King of Heaven with empty hands, in debt to Him for everything: life itself, and grace, and all the gifts He lavishes on us. Yet all we can say is, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all I owe,’ while all the time we could never pay anything towards the remission of our own debts, if God did not put into our hands the means to do so. And then, how often do we go away and refuse pardon for some slight fault in our neighbors, withholding our love, remaining aloof, or even nursing a grievance against them, and building up grudges that cool charity.

Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart



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